The bug
squashing party held in Dublin on Saturday, 8 September
was hosted in Google office space and gathered 15 people.
In addition to its impact on the Release-Critical bugs list it triggered
the bootstrapping of a local Debian community with the desire to
hold a second such party in October.

The following weekend, another
bug
squashing party held in Berlin gathered approximately 25 people who also
worked on German translations besides dealing with Release-Critical bugs.

Ana Guerrero sent a
report
about Debian's Google Summer of Code. Debian has been participating in the
Google Summer of Code since 2006, and sponsored 15 projects this year, of which 12
finished successfully.
Students supervised by Debian mentors worked on various aspects of the
project, including improvements to mentors.debian.net, the development
of multi-arch cross-toolchains, and metrics for team activities, to
name just three. Some of these results have already been included into Debian.
The Debian project thanks those who took part, including especially the
students for their contributions, and invites them to continue being involved
in making Debian better.

Sylvestre Ledru, on the behalf of the
organisation team, announced that
the second
Mini DebConf in Paris will take place on 24 and 25 November
and will be hosted by EPITA. His
message
mentions that a BSP will be in progress through the entire event,
and that they're currently soliciting talks for the event.

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our
talks page?
Send an email to the Debian Events Team.

According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database, the upcoming release, Debian Wheezy, is currently affected by 480 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 266 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
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list, and stable updates
list) for announcements.

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